Class: Akephalos::RemoteClient

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
show all
Defined in:
lib/akephalos/remote_client.rb

Overview

The RemoteClient class provides an interface to an Akephalos::Client isntance on a remote DRb server.

Usage

client = Akephalos::RemoteClient.new
client.visit "http://www.oinopa.com"
client.page.source # => "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC..."

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.manager ⇒ DRbObject

Starts a remove JRuby DRb server unless already running and returns an instance of Akephalos::ClientManager.

Returns:

  • (DRbObject) —

    an instance of Akephalos::ClientManager



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# File 'lib/akephalos/remote_client.rb', line 28

def self.manager
  return @manager if defined?(@manager)

  server_port = start!

  DRb.start_service("druby://127.0.0.1:#{find_available_port}")
  manager = DRbObject.new_with_uri("druby://127.0.0.1:#{server_port}")

  # We want to share our local configuration with the remote server
  # process, so we share an undumped version of our configuration. This
  # lets us continue to make changes locally and have them reflected in the
  # remote process.
  manager.configuration = Akephalos.configuration.extend(DRbUndumped)

  @manager = manager
end

.new(options = {}) ⇒ DRbObject

Returns a new instance of Akephalos::Client from the DRb server.

Returns:

  • (DRbObject) —

    a new instance of Akephalos::Client from the DRb server



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# File 'lib/akephalos/remote_client.rb', line 20

def self.new(options = {})
  manager.new_client(options)
end

.start! ⇒ Object

Start a remote server process and return when it is available for use.



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# File 'lib/akephalos/remote_client.rb', line 46

def self.start!
  port = find_available_port

  remote_client = IO.popen("ruby #{Akephalos::BIN_DIR + 'akephalos'} #{port}")

  # Set up a monitor thread to detect if the forked server exits
  # prematurely.
  server_monitor = Thread.new { Thread.current[:exited] = Process.wait(remote_client.pid) }

  # Wait for the server to be accessible on the socket we specified.
  until responsive?(port)
    exit!(1) if server_monitor[:exited]
    sleep 0.5
  end
  server_monitor.kill

  # Ensure that the remote server shuts down gracefully when we are
  # finished.
  at_exit { Process.kill(:INT, remote_client.pid) }

  port
end